Vietnam itinerary, day by day

A capital a thousand years old, with a French colonial layer laid over the top. The old quarter still carries the names of its thirty-six craft guilds, and dinner is eaten on plastic stools at knee height.

• Guided street food walk3h · from €25

  Three hours and half a dozen stops through the old quarter, sitting where the neighbourhood sits.

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• Water puppet show1h · from €12

  Puppets worked from behind a screen in waist-deep water, a village art of the Red River delta that goes back nine centuries. About an hour.

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Roughly 1,600 limestone towers standing straight out of the water, UNESCO-listed since 1994. Junks thread between them, and most stay a night.

• Two-day junk cruiseNight on board · from €140

  A night on board among the karst towers, which is the only way to see the bay empty at first light.

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• Kayaking into the caves2h · from €20

  Two hours paddling through rock tunnels that open onto lagoons closed in on every side.

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A trading port from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, left intact when the river silted up and the ships stopped coming. The old town is lit by lanterns and UNESCO-listed.

• Tailoring, made to measureHalf day · from €40

  Hoi An has cut cloth for foreign traders for centuries. Measured in the morning, fitted the same evening.

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• Market and cooking classHalf day · from €30

  The market first, then a boat to the kitchen, then the herbs and the rolling done by hand.

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A capital a thousand years old, with a French colonial layer laid over the top. The old quarter still carries the names of its thirty-six craft guilds, and dinner is eaten on plastic stools at knee height.

• Guided street food walk3h · from €25

  Three hours and half a dozen stops through the old quarter, sitting where the neighbourhood sits.

  Book on GetYourGuide →
• Water puppet show1h · from €12

  Puppets worked from behind a screen in waist-deep water, a village art of the Red River delta that goes back nine centuries. About an hour.

  Book on GetYourGuide →

Roughly 1,600 limestone towers standing straight out of the water, UNESCO-listed since 1994. Junks thread between them, and most stay a night.

• Two-day junk cruiseNight on board · from €140

  A night on board among the karst towers, which is the only way to see the bay empty at first light.

  Book on GetYourGuide →
• Kayaking into the caves2h · from €20

  Two hours paddling through rock tunnels that open onto lagoons closed in on every side.

  Book on GetYourGuide →

A trading port from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, left intact when the river silted up and the ships stopped coming. The old town is lit by lanterns and UNESCO-listed.

• Tailoring, made to measureHalf day · from €40

  Hoi An has cut cloth for foreign traders for centuries. Measured in the morning, fitted the same evening.

  Book on GetYourGuide →
• Market and cooking classHalf day · from €30

  The market first, then a boat to the kitchen, then the herbs and the rolling done by hand.

  Book on GetYourGuide →

Saigon until 1975, and the commercial engine of the country since. Ben Thanh market, colonial facades, and the Cu Chi tunnels an hour out of town.

• The Cu Chi tunnels, guidedHalf day · from €30

  Two hundred kilometres of tunnels dug by hand during the war. One stretch has been widened so visitors can crawl through it.

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• Mekong delta day tripFull day · from €45

  Sampans down the narrow channels, a coconut workshop and a floating market, back in Saigon by evening.

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